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Kid Ink to heat up Fredonia: ‘We didn’t want someone who was a one-hit ‘

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor   This year’s winter has been long and drawn out. The cold and dark afternoons have bled into late April, marking as one of Fredonia’s most shivering springs of recent year. Even so, Fredonia’s most esteemed student-run events planning team is heating things up. This......
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News

Cosmic transformation talk draws in large turnout

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor   Students, faculty and community members gathered for last week’s Brown Bag Lecture series. Dr. Neal Evans from the University of Texas at Austin presented “Extraterritorial Life: A Scientific Inquiry.” He focused on cosmic transformation and the scientific explanation of life beyond Earth. Opening remarks were......
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Opinion

‘Shut up and dribble’? Nah

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesQUINTIN JAMES Assistant Sports Editor   During the NBA All-Star weekend, LeBron James and Kevin Durant were bombarded with questions about their response to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham’s “shut up and dribble” comments. In an interview with ESPN’s Cari Champion, James said, “We are at a watershed moment in this......
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Opinion

Trump’s budget betrays his base and bolsters the uber-rich

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer   Many, if not most, of my relatives are fiscal conservatives. Oftentimes, the label is tacked on to a sentence announcing their conservative lean in an apologetic or conciliatory way — like ‘I’m a conservative, but a fiscal conservative, so if you want to marry a......
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Politics was this Thanksgiving’s ugly centerpiece on the dinner table as debates turned brutal

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Reading Time: 2 minutes  SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor   This year’s Thanksgiving has reportedly been more brutal than usual as many self-proclaimed social justice warriors squared up against their “MAGA” hat-wearing uncles in heated debates. The arguments over the holiday had a political theme with topics such as healthcare, the GOP......
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News

Another star, another state?: Puerto Rico’s political storm continues

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesJACOB M. SANTOS Special to the Leader During the Fall 2017 semester, Fredonia’s Professional Development Center has continued to coordinate The Democracy 101 collection held every week in Reed Library. Last week, Carmen Rivera, who serves as the associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Science, hosted a......
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News

Philosophical debate brings back age-old question: Is abortion morally acceptable?

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor   On Nov. 7, Fredonia hosted a debate that discussed the morality of abortion. Dr. John Keller, associate professor at Niagara University, argued that abortion is immoral while Fredonia’s own Dr. Stephen Kershnar, chair of the philosophy department, argued that abortion is moral. A......
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Accomplished Fredonia graduate returns to campus for Writers at Work series

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor Jim Ranney, Fredonia alumnus and Director of Communications for New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan made a recent appearance at his alma mater. Ranney is a 25-year veteran of broadcast journalism and former station manager and news director of WBFO/WNED-TV in Buffalo. This past week he......
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